Gilgamesh opened his mouth, saying to Enkidu: "Friend, who can scale heaven? Only the gods live forever under the sun. As for men, their days are numbered; their achievments are a puff of wind. Here you are, afraid of death. What of your great strength? Let me walk in front of you, and let your mouth call to me, 'Keep on! Fear nothing!' If I fail, I will have made myself a name. 'Gilgamesh,' they will say, 'went against fierce Humbaba and died.' They will remember, afterward, the child born in my house..."
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